Category: Queensland State Archives’ Photostream About Fortitude Valley

Post and Telegraph Offices, Warwick, c 1899

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Warwick Post Office opened in 1898, replacing an earlier post office built in 1884. It designed by the Queensland Government Architect, A.B. Brady, in a contemporary Baroque Revival style. It was placed on the Australian Heritage Database in 2011.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 2692

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State School, Warwick, c 1890

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From the Queensland Heritage Register..

The Central State School is a stone building constructed in 1875 as the second school in Warwick, but one of the earliest State-run schools in Queensland.

Education in Australia was first provided by Churches and by small private concerns. In 1848 a New South Wales Board of National Education was formed to provide public, secular education through National Schools. When Queensland separated from New South Wales in December 1859, two National Schools had been built in Queensland, the earliest in Warwick in 1850.

The Education Act of 1860 was amongst the earliest legislation enacted by the new colony. It established a Board of General Education and provided for a system of government-subsidised primary schools, similar to that in New South Wales. Under the Queensland Act, communities were required to contribute one-third of the cost of construction of new school buildings. Pupils at schools

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Warwick War Memorial, 1995

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From the Queensland Heritage Register.

Leslie Park in Warwick is one half of a recreation reserve allocated during the first survey of the town in 1849. While the northern section has now been largely built upon, the southern section remains a public park. It was named Leslie Park in 1901, honouring the Leslie brothers; Patrick, George and Walter who established Queensland’s earliest pastoral runs on the Darling Downs in 1840. The park comprises a number of significant elements: the pathways, dating to at least 1867, a croquet club (1906), lawn bowls club (1909), Morgan Memorial (1911), War Memorial (1923), War Memorial Gates (1925), war trophy guns (relocated to Warwick 1921) and the Leslie Centenary Memorial Gates (1941). The Leslie Centenary Memorial Gates were donated to the town in 1941 by the owner of Glengallan Homestead [QHR 600007].

Allan Cunningham, explorer and botanist, was the first European to

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Plan of the Warwick Baby Clinic, 17 January 1923

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The Brisbane Courier
22 February 1930

WARWICK BABY CLINIC OPENED.

The opening of the Warwick baby clinic established by the Government, at a cost of about £2000, on land in Percy-street, donated to the Government by the Warwick Branch of the Q.A.T.B., was performed by the Home Secretary (Mr. J. C. Peterson), who ar l wed by the mail train from Brisbane. He was accompanied by Mrs Peterson, Mr. C. ,E. Chuter (Under-secretary to the Home Secretary’s Department), and Dr. Turner (Director of Infant Welfare). After a visit to the ambulance brigade the Ministerial party proceeded to the new clinic, where an official welcome was extended to them by Mr. G. P. Barnes, M.L.A., and Mr. Hugh Millar (deputy chairman of the ambulance brigade). During his opening speech the Minister outlined the aims of the Government in establishing baby clinics, and also commented upon the recent decision of

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Design for the town of Warwick in the County of Merivale, by Hill, 1849

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Patrick Leslie and his brothers originally settled the area and named their pastoral run Canning Downs. In 1847 the New South Wales government asked them to select a site for a township, which was originally to be called Cannington but was eventually named after Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 12304

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Southern and Western Railways, Station Master's House, Warwick, 19 February 1880

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From the Queensland Heritage Register.

A major part of the redevelopment plan of the railway station was for a goods’ shed, which had been finished for ‘some time’ when the Examiner and Times reported on the progress of the site in October 1887. According to this report a carriage shed, engine shed and station master’s residence had been planned but were not yet erected on the site. Local contractors, Campbell and Thompson were awarded the contract for the station master’s residence on 31 July 1888, and this was constructed at the southern end of the railway site.

Queensland State Archives Item ID120981, Drawings – railway

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